Welcome to Rates and barrels, it's Monday, July 29th, Derek Van Rhyver Enosarous, back from vacation.

Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday?

I am not clean-shaven.

The house has got no food.

We just walked in the door, so it was, we're, this is, you got me fresh.

But it was amazing. Thanks we're, this is, this, you got me fresh, but it was amazing.

Uh, thanks to all the listeners and readers for their recommendations.

We ate a lot of the food that they recommended.

We really enjoyed ourselves.

I put, I put on the pounds a little bit, but, uh, we ended up in Anna Cortez, which is

on the water, um, sort of north of Seattle.

And we went crabbing and shrimping in the boat and then ate our crab and shrimp at this three-day-long party at my friend's parents' house.

So it was pretty cool.

There was a really cool way to end it because we'd been really, we did Mount

Reneer and we did Olympic and we did all the museums in Seattle.

We did everything where we were like, we had an itinerary.

We were like tomorrow and we're doing this.

We're going here.

We're driving here.

We're doing this.

And so the last three days were kind of just like chill hanging out on an island and

sitting in deck chairs and watching the sun go down. So that was great. Hey, well, good timing because you came back and a lot of stuff happened. Yeah, I try to kind of keep track of that with the phone in my pocket looking every once in

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